Originally Posted by
HireAstarPilots
Why not?
The management at the Fedex MEC unit seems not to understand this simple fact. There are litterally HUNDREDS of CAPTAINS of heavy jets who are younger than 40 and who have spent the past decade flying under part 121 daily....and who look at their current [flaky; gone tomorrow easily~] airline and wonder why they are prostrating themselves during 18 hour duty days. Sometimes it is more than 18 hours- if scheduling tacks on a part 91 ferry, then you are now going towards 21 hours of duty time.
A lot of these kids have been flying 6 legs per day for 20 days per month. It is typical for a regional airline pilot to put 95 hours in their logbook each month.
NOW: With that sort of resource out there....can anyone here tell me WHY Fedex would pay tens of thousands of dollars to send an existing pilot to a foreign base, when they can be sure to send one there for FREE?
Hello?
Why not?
Fedex wants, who they want. Not who's available.
They simply want to do things as cheaply as possible. If our union or membership aid them in accomplishing this, shame on us.
Filling the left seat, with pilots currently on the seniority list, is never a problem. I guess their are plenty of pilots, currently unemployed, who would be willing to take the right seat regardless of the financial consequences. Fortunately, Fedex realizes that a temporary manning situation (FDA), is just that, temporary. They will do what they have to to make it work with the pilots they have. Otherwise, every time a bid came out, they would be replacing FO's in FDA locations, and instead of hiring who they wanted, they would be hiring who was willing. Not likely.